A KNIFE-wielding pensioner who threatened teenagers at a Bolton skate park has been spared jail.
At Bolton Crown Court Harold Love, aged 65, who had admitted causing fear or provocation of violence as well as possessing a knife in public at an earlier hearing, was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for a year.
A group of youths were using the skate park on Great Moor Street, Bolton on the evening of August 17 when drunken Love threatened them.
Witnesses at the time told how he chased people around the concrete playground and even held a knife to the neck of a passer-by. No one was injured.
Police arrested Love, of Crook Street, Bolton, at the scene and he pleaded guilty during an appearance at Bolton Magistrates’’ Court.
At his sentencing hearing at Bolton Crown Court, in addition to the suspended prison sentence, Recorder Abigail Hudson ordered Love to participate in 15 days of rehabilitation activities and undergo treatment for alcohol addiction for six months.
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